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Dr. Donald Burton, a successful neurologist awaiting his final divorce decree, becomes engaged to Dollie Jones, a social climber who does not love him. Burton is treating a patient when his fiancée arrives and informs him that they are to have lunch with her mother; Jerry Mason, Burton's lawyer, interrupts to tell him that Hazel, the wife he is divorcing, is in town. Dollie knows nothing about Hazel, and, unfortunately, they lunch at the hotel where Hazel is staying, and where she is looked upon with scorn. In passing their table, Hazel stumbles over Burton's foot and pretends to have been injured. Complications ensue when Hector Brooks, a patient with a nervous ailment, is confronted by Dollie, who has jilted him; Dollie marries the doctor in haste, but the court nullifies their marriage; everyone meets in the pullman car of a train, and the couples are respectively reconciled when the car is wrecked.